Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.